Markdown Guide

Markdown Information

Markdown, created by John Gruber of Daring Fireball, is the technology we chose to use to allow rich text within Day One journal entries. Markdown allows italic and bold, along with several other simple formatting options that can be written using plain text and display properly in Read views. Markdown syntax is available in Day One and is toggled On by default.

Blockquotes

Tables

Note that because the first line of journal entries has special properties associated with Day One’s auto-bolding feature, tables must start on the second or subsequent line of a journal entry.

Horizontal Rules

Three or more dashes or asterisks --- ***

Code & Preformatted Text

<code> spans are delimited by backticks. You can include literal backticks like `this`.

[TAB]Preformatted text block using a tab.
Preformatted text block using a tab.

Markdown Footnotes

This is how to use footnotes [^1] with Markdown in Day One.
[^1]: Supported in both iOS and Mac Apps.

This is how to use footnotes 1 with Markdown in Day One. (see footnote at the bottom of this page)

Citations

To make citations, use <cite> at the beginning of the citation and </cite> at the end of the citation.

Day One Markdown Stylesheet and Examples

We’re looking into possible ways to allow users to create and customize the CSS / Style that’s used to render the Read views and export formats. For now you can preview the CSS that’s in use in the current apps.